Sticks, Stones, and Nukes | Emanuele Corso

Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right). Source: Wikipedia

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust

Nov. 25, 2014

The atomic weapon dropped on Hiroshima Aug. 6, 1945, killed some 70,000–80,000 people, about 30 percent of the city's population, most of whom were non-combatants. Another 70,000 were injured (1).

In Nagasaki, the second target, the death toll from the atomic bombing Aug. 9, 1945, totaled nearly 73,000 with another 75,000 injured (2).

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, large Soviet cities were targeted with hydrogen weapons to be delivered mostly by ICBMs with less than 30 minutes of flight time from U.S. silos. Large American population centers were likewise targeted by the Soviets. It is certain that with such little warning millions of people would have been killed on both sides.

Warfare began with sticks and stones and, until modern times, counted casualties in ones and twos, then hundreds, then thousands and generally involved only actual combatants. Until weapons such as cannons and longbows, it was also usually a matter of one-on-one personal combat. Today a crew of two has the power to kill millions of people thousands of miles away most of whom would be innocents.

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